"Grasshopper Club Zürich Grasshopper Club Zürich, commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers, is a multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known department of the club is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper holds the records for winning the most national championship titles and for the most successes in the Swiss Cup tournament, 19 victories in the competition. The club is the oldest football team in Zürich and maintains a substantial rivalry with FC Zürich. The origin of Grasshopper's name is unknown, although the most common explanation refers to its early players' energetic"
"the 2013–14 season) representing the Santa Coloma's squirrel and the colours of the Andorran nation with the motto's country ""Virtus Unita Fortior"". The club's nickname, as seen from the crest, is ""Esquirols"" (Squirrels) due to the number of the animals that live around the town of Santa Coloma. There is a long-standing tradition for a number of fans to wear squirrel costumes at the club's last home game of each season. The local rival of UE Santa Coloma is actually their neighbour's hometown football team FC Santa Coloma. The rivalry between these two teams has increased since the 2009/10 season"
"and 2012. The club are known for their club football chant: """"sit down if you love Sitten"""" a wordplay on the town's German name Sitten. The club also has a training centre near its office in Martigny and a youth development center in nearby Riddes. FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion (). The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and the Swiss Cup in 13 of"
"FC St. Gallen FC St. Gallen 1879 (""Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879"") is a Swiss football club based in St. Gallen. The club is currently playing in the 2017-2018 Swiss Super League. Founded on 19 April 1879, FC St. Gallen is the oldest club still in existence in Swiss football and in Continental Europe. However, the team has had relatively little success in comparison to other clubs. Despite the fact that St. Gallen won the Swiss championship twice in the 1903–04 and 1999–2000 seasons, the team has mostly been a mid-table side. During the last decade, the strength of the club"
"Swiss Football Association The Swiss Football Association (, , , ) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern. It was formed in 1895, was a founder member of FIFA in 1904 and joined UEFA during its foundation year, 1954. FIFA is now based in Switzerland at Zürich. Also UEFA is based in the Swiss city of Nyon. ASF-SFV is the abbreviation of the associations name in three of the national languages of Switzerland. ASF stands for both French (""Association"
"IF had an ice hockey section that was shut down in 2008. In 2013, the club Bajen Fans Hockey then changed their name to Hammarby Ishockey, thereby becoming one of very few clubs in Sweden that have acquired another club and made it their own. In Switzerland only one ""relocation"" has happened so far. The Zürich-based football club Grasshoppers Zürich under company name ""Die Neue Grasshopper Fussball AG"" controversially moved their headquarters in 2005 from the city itself to Niederhasli. The addition of Zurich was remained in the club's name and the team is still playing in the city of"
"the west side of town. The stadium replaced the former Espenmoos stadium in the east. Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference. FC St. Gallen FC St. Gallen 1879 (""Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879"") is a Swiss football club based in St. Gallen. The club is currently playing in the 2017-2018 Swiss Super League. Founded on 19 April 1879, FC St. Gallen is the oldest club still in existence in Swiss football and in Continental Europe. However, the team has had relatively little success in comparison to other clubs. Despite the fact that St. Gallen"
"the Swiss vice champion FC Zürich, which ended with a 1–1 tie. In 2012 the tournament was not held, but was held in 2013 between 5 and 9 July with Basel and Grasshopper Club Zürich taking part. For Basel it was be the 29th time that they would take place; they have won the competition thirteen times. The tournament again took a hiatus, this time of three years before returning in 2016. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Uhrencup The Uhrencup is a club football tournament, held annually in Grenchen and Biel in Switzerland. The Uhrencup is seen as a"
"Alpine Messi"" and ""the magic dwarf"". Shaqiri is a Muslim. Shaqiri was chosen to be on the cover of the ""FIFA"" video game ""FIFA 15"" in Switzerland next to Lionel Messi. Shaqiri is sponsored by sportswear and equipment supplier Nike. He wears Nike Mercurial Vapor boots, and at the 2018 World Cup he had the flags of Switzerland and Kosovo embroidered on each heel. Basel Bayern Munich Xherdan Shaqiri Xherdan Shaqiri (; born 10 October 1991) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Liverpool and the Swiss national team. He began his career"
"square and the S-Bahn Station of . Zürich is home to several international sport federations. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is headquartered in the city. In 2007 were inaugurated the new FIFA headquarters building, designed by architect Tilla Theus. Association football is an essential aspect of sports in Zürich. The city is home to two major Swiss football teams; Grasshopper Club Zürich founded in 1886 and FC Zürich founded in 1896, both competing in Switzerland's highest league. Among the most popular sports in Switzerland is ice hockey. In Zürich it is represented by the ZSC Lions. The International"
"SC Cham SC Cham 1910 is a Swiss football team currently playing in the third tier of the Swiss football pyramid. They are based in Cham and were founded in 1910. The club was founded on 14 June 1910 and was the first football club in Canton Zug. They were originally known as Football-Club Cham. The club made it to the Challenge League in the 1998/99 season. They were relegated shortly afterwards but managed to return for the 2002/03 season. At the end of the 2007/08 season the club were relegated to the 1. Liga. The club play their home"
"Suisse de Football"") and Italian (""Associazione Svizzera di Football""), while SFV is the German (""Schweizerischer Fussballverband"").- Romansh - It is abbreviated as ASB (""Associaziun Svizra da Ballape""). Swiss Football Association The Swiss Football Association (, , , ) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern. It was formed in 1895, was a founder member of FIFA in 1904 and joined UEFA during its foundation year, 1954. FIFA is now based in Switzerland at Zürich. Also UEFA is based in"
"FC Luzern Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Super League, the top tier of the Swiss football league system, and has won the national title once and the national cup twice. The club colours are blue and white, derived from the City of Lucerne and Canton of Lucerne coats of arms. The club plays its home games at Swissporarena which was newly built in 2011 at the place of the old Stadion Allmend. FC Luzern was founded"
"FC Basel FC Basel 1893 (""Fussball Club Basel 1893""), widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 12 times, and Swiss League Cup winners once. Basel have competed in European competitions every season since 1999–2000. They have qualified for the Group Stages of the Champions League more times than any other Swiss club – a total of seven times – and are the only Swiss club to have ever qualified to the Group Stages directly. Since"
"in spring 2004. FC Wohlen FC Wohlen is a Swiss football club based in the town Wohlen in Canton Aargau. They play in the Challenge League, the second highest league in the country. The club was founded in May 1904 and holds the honour of being the oldest football club in Switzerland that is not in a city. From 1930 to 1932 the team played in the Swiss Super League, the highest league in Switzerland, but mostly it has played in the 2nd or 3rd tiers. The greatest success of their recent history was their promotion to the Challenge League"
"the national championship game, the Swiss Bowl, on eight occasions, last in 2017. The club was formed as the Landquart Broncos in 1991. Originally, the club opted for the name Grison Broncos, Grison being the English name for Graubünden, but this was vetoed by the Swiss American Football Association. After a slow start with 13 consecutive defeats the Broncos won their first game in 1993, followed by promotion to the Nationalliga A, the highest level of American football in Switzerland. The Broncos took another three seasons to make their first Swiss Bowl appearance, narrowly losing 14–13 to the Seaside Vipers"
"of Madrid depicts a bear reaching up into a ""madroño"" or strawberry tree (""Arbutus unedo"") to eat some of its fruit, whereas the Swiss city of Bern's coat of arms also depicts a bear and the city's name is popularly thought to derive from the German word for bear. The brown bear is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 5 kuna coin, minted since 1993. The Bundesliga club Bayern Munich has a brown bear mascot named Berni. The National Football League (NFL) franchise in Chicago, Illinois, is named the Bears. In this context, no differentiation between black and brown"
"SV Schaffhausen SV Schaffhausen is a Swiss football club based in Schaffhausen, in the north of the country. It was founded in 1922. The club colors are black and white. The club nickname is ""Spielvi."" The club operates a total of twenty teams, including 4 men's teams and 16 junior teams. They are known to be more active within local football than their bigger local rivals FC Schaffhausen. They currently play in the Swiss 1. Liga, the third tier of Swiss football. The club was formed in 1922 by the merger of two clubs, Hollow Tree and Sportclub Schaffhausen. Between"
"Lions AFC was officially founded. The Lions competed in The Champions League in Amsterdam in April 2018 and in a CEAFL tournament in Prague in September 2018. A 7-v-7 exhibition match in Winterthur in August 2018 helped increase interest and awareness of Australian Rules football in Switzerland. Two new Clubs, the Basel Dragons and the Geneva Jets, were founded in October 2018. Switzerland's men's team competed in the Euro Cup in Cork in October 2018. A new Swiss league will be held between May and August 2019. The Oxford University Australian Rules Football Club is the oldest Australian Rules Football"
"was played in the opening round of the Saxony Cup 2014–15 against SV Lipsia Eutritzsch, which ended in a 2–0 win for Inter Leipzig. On the last matchday of the 2014–15 season, the team was promoted to the NOFV-Oberliga after a 7–0 win against Heidenauer SV. In July 2015 the team introduced a new team logo. The unicorn was replaced by a lion, which is the heraldic animal of the city of Leipzig. The following players have appeared for the club and played internationally: Inter Leipzig Inter Leipzig is a German association football club located in Leipzig, Saxony. Their first"
"have secured qualification for the quarter finals. However, the game was lost 0–1 and Ajax advanced instead. With title wins in 2000–01 and 2002–03, the first decade of the 21st century started well, but since then no further successes were achieved. In 1997, Grasshopper incorporated and as of May 2005, it is formally organized as Neue Grasshopper Fussball AG. In doing so, Grasshopper became the first Swiss sports club to go public. On 20 May 2013, Grasshopper ended a ten-year trophy drought with a penalty shoot-out victory over FC Basel in the Swiss Cup final at the Stade de Suisse"
"FC Wohlen FC Wohlen is a Swiss football club based in the town Wohlen in Canton Aargau. They play in the Challenge League, the second highest league in the country. The club was founded in May 1904 and holds the honour of being the oldest football club in Switzerland that is not in a city. From 1930 to 1932 the team played in the Swiss Super League, the highest league in Switzerland, but mostly it has played in the 2nd or 3rd tiers. The greatest success of their recent history was their promotion to the Challenge League in 2002. In"
"Grison, are Capuns, hearty dumplings with pieces of meat wrapped in chard leaves. The Raetia national football team, a member of the NF-Board, represents the region at international level, and competed in the 2012 VIVA World Cup. Canton of Grisons The canton of (the) Grisons, or canton of Graubünden, is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. It has international borders with Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Its German name, ""Graubünden"", translates as the ""Grey Leagues"", referring to the canton's origin in three local alliances, the League of God's House, the Grey League, and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions. Grisons"
"Football in Switzerland Football is the most popular sport in Switzerland. The Swiss Football Association was formed in 1895 and was a founder member of the sport's international governing body FIFA in 1904. The Swiss cities of Zürich and Nyon are home to FIFA and the European governing body UEFA respectively. The country played host to the 1954 World Cup and 2008 European Championship. Switzerland has an extensive league system, with the Swiss Super League as the country's premier men's competition. There are also several cup competitions, most notably the national Swiss Cup. With a very young squad, the Swiss"
"FC Sion Football Club de Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss football team from the city of Sion (). The club was founded in 1909, and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have won the Swiss Super League twice, and the Swiss Cup in 13 of their 14 appearances in the final, the most recent being in 2015. FC Sion were founded in 1909 by Robert Gilliard, who became club captain, and played their first match the same year, a 3–2 win against FC Aigle. The club grew thanks to contributions"
"functions. The club's mascot is named ""Skeeta Reynolds"". Named after Dick Reynolds, he is a mosquito and was created in honour of the team's back-to-back premiership sides in the 1920s known as the ""Mosquito Fleet"". He was first named through a competition run in the Bomber magazine with ""Skeeta"" being the winning entry. This was later changed to ""Skeeta Reynolds"". He appears as a red mosquito in an Essendon jumper and wears a red and black scarf. Essendon has a four-way rivalry with , , and being the four biggest and most supported clubs in Victoria. Matches between the clubs"
"Unicorns (Germany) and the La Courneuve Flash (France), making La Courneuve the first team from outside of German-speaking Europe to enter the competition. In Eurobowl XXIX, the New Yorker Lions defeated fellow German club Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns 24–14. For the 2016 season, the Flash were replaced by fellow French club Aix-en-Provence Argonautes. The 2016 season saw the first time that a non-German team survived the group stage when the Swarco Raiders Tirol knocked out the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in the last group match to advance to Eurobowl XXX against the New Yorker Lions. In the final in Innsbruck, the Lions"
"FC Fribourg FC Fribourg is a Swiss football club from the town of Fribourg in the Canton of Fribourg. In the 2013/14 season, the team is playing in the 1. Liga Classic, the fourth highest tier in the Swiss football pyramid. The club was founded on 21 October 1900 and began life as FC Technicum. It took its name from the local school where nine young men gathered in the school brewery to establish the foundations for a football club. The majority of the men were not local, most of the men were students from England. The team had to"
"or after playing for the club: The club's honours: Leu Braunschweig HSC Leu 06 Braunschweig, commonly known as Leu Braunschweig, is a German association football club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was founded as ""BV Wacker Braunschweig"" in 1906. In 1911, Wacker was merged into ""MTV Braunschweig"", another local sports club. However, both clubs separated again in 1923. Since the name Wacker had in the meantime been taken by another Braunschweig club, the side re-established under the name ""FC Leu"". Leu is Middle High German for ""lion"", the heraldic animal of Braunschweig. The club was twice part of"
"the traditional black and blue. After World War II, when the Fascists had fallen from power, the club reverted to their original name and colours. In 2008, Inter celebrated their centenary with a red cross on their away shirt. The cross is reminiscent of the flag of their city, and they continue to use the pattern on their third kit. In 2014, the club adopted a predominantly black home kit with thin blue pinstripes before returning to a more traditional design the following season. Animals are often used to represent football clubs in Italy – the grass snake, called ""Biscione"""
"Leu Braunschweig HSC Leu 06 Braunschweig, commonly known as Leu Braunschweig, is a German association football club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was founded as ""BV Wacker Braunschweig"" in 1906. In 1911, Wacker was merged into ""MTV Braunschweig"", another local sports club. However, both clubs separated again in 1923. Since the name Wacker had in the meantime been taken by another Braunschweig club, the side re-established under the name ""FC Leu"". Leu is Middle High German for ""lion"", the heraldic animal of Braunschweig. The club was twice part of top-flight German football early in its history, first in"
"again. The club hit the headlines when they defeated the favourite FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Cup by 2–0 in 2007. According to rumors, the club faces allegations to be involved in match-fixing during season 2008/09. Sources believe that a former goalkeeper and a defender, still member of the squad, were bribed by a betting gang. and released on 23 November 2009 Mario Bigoni in the course of the 2009 European football betting scandal. In May 2010, former players Marc Lütolf, Mario Bigoni, Darko Damjanović were given open-ended suspensions. FC Gossau FC Gossau is a Swiss football club from"
"FC Gossau FC Gossau is a Swiss football club from the city of Gossau in the canton of St. Gallen. The club currently plays in the Challenge League, the second-highest level of Swiss football. After its foundation in 1906, FC Gossau spent the first 65 years of its history in almost entire unimportance. This changed in 1971 when they advanced for the first time to the 1. Liga (third level) by a 3–0 victory against FC Widnau. Between 1975 and 1978, they even managed to reach the promotion to the second level (NLB). Changeful years followed, the Club played mostly"